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The Business of Theatrical Design

For theatrical design students and theater professionals, here is the essential guide to marketing your skills, furthering your career, and operating a successful business! In The Business of Theatrical Design, design veteran James Moody shares his proven techniques to help costume, scenic, and lighting designers become successful businesspeople. Here is the latest information regarding IRS, state, and business liabilities; salary and fee scales; equipment costs; professional organizations; union and contract issues; and much more. Plus dozens of working producers, promoters, and designer.

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  • "For theatrical design students and theater professionals, here is the essential guide to marketing your skills, furthering your career, and operating a successful business! In The Business of Theatrical Design, design veteran James Moody shares his proven techniques to help costume, scenic, and lighting designers become successful businesspeople. Here is the latest information regarding IRS, state, and business liabilities; salary and fee scales; equipment costs; professional organizations; union and contract issues; and much more. Plus dozens of working producers, promoters, and designer."@en
  • "The ultimate guide to making it as a set, lighting, costume, or scenic designer, now in its second edition. Written by a leading design consultant and carefully updated with the latest information on the industry, this is the essential guide to earning a living, marketing skills, furthering a design career, and operating a business. With more than thirty years of backstage and behind-the-scenes experience in theater, film, television, concerts, and special events, James Moody shares his success secrets for the benefit of design students and working designers. Topics include: Finding and landing dream assignments Negotiating fees Setting up ideal working spaces Building the perfect staff Overcoming fears of accounting and record-keeping Choosing the right insurance Joining the right unions and professional organizations And more In addition to revealing how to get the great design jobs in traditional entertainment venues, the author shows designers how to think outside the box and seize creative, lucrative opportunities, such as those in theme parks, in concert halls, and with architectural firms. Providing the keys for passionate, talented designers to become successful businesspeople, The Business of Theatrical Design is a must-read for novices and established professionals alike."
  • "Publisher's description: The scenery, costumes, lights, sound, and special effects of theater work together to create illusions that enchant and delight audiences. Behind these illusion, however, lies the serious business of theatrical designers. While these designers are called to the profession by their creativity and talent, there have been few resources to help them with the business side of their work. That is now changing. With more than thirty years of backstage and behind-the-scenes experience in theater, film, television, concert, and special events, design consultant James Moody has created The Business of Theatrical Design--the essential guide to earning a living, marketing skills, furthering a design career, and operating a business. "There must be no question; if we want to protect our economic well-being and see that our careers move forward, we must face the fact that theatrical design is a business", Moody observes. For theatrical design students and working professionals, The Business of Theatrical Design reveals success secrets with costume, scenic, and lighting designers, as well as production managers. Specific coverage includes how to: Find and land dream assignments; Negotiate the fee you know you're worth; Set up a space in which you can actually work; Build the perfect working staff; Conquer fears of accounting and record-keeping; Protect your design business with insurance; Join the right unions and professional organizations; In addition to revealing how to get the great design jobs in traditional entertainment venues, the author shows designers how to think outside the box and seize creative, solid business opportunities--such as in theme parks, in concert halls, and with architectural firms. Providing the keys for passionate, talented designers to become successful businesspeople, The Business of Theatrical Design is a must-read for novices and established professionals alike."

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